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God as Author

I may have blogged about this idea before, but repetition never hurt anybody… At first glance, it seems that if people have free will, then God must not have a plan after all. In other words, you can believe that people choose to do bad things, or you can believe that God willed that they […]

Peter, the Rock

One of the most interesting characters in the Bible is Simon Peter, whom Jesus made the rock of the new Church. (Catholics consider Peter to be the first Pope.) Peter is interesting because he had a “great attitude” and wanted to do the right thing. However, he was, after all, just a man, and would […]

Faith Is Not Opposed to Reason

This short video is a great analogy for why religious faith is not at all a euphemism for “turning your reason off.” Watching this guy makes me consider going back to Catholicism. A simple request: If you feel called to write things like, “I don’t believe in superstitious mumbo jumbo,” etc., please be clear on […]

Jesus Christ: Fair & Balanced

When you read the gospels, one of the things that stands out in the life of Jesus is how much of His time He spent in prayer. This is interesting, because you might at first think that Jesus doesn’t “need” prayer as much as the rest of us do. Indeed, that’s usually the angle that […]

Jesus the Great Storyteller

It recently struck me that among His other superlative traits, Jesus was a great storyteller. There was no reason it had to be so. Moses wasn’t a storyteller, nor were any of the other giants from the Old Testament (at least not that I can think of). Daniel would tell some amazing tales, to be […]

The Demonic Twist to “Anonymous”

For a while now this “Anonymous” hacker group has given me the creeps. But this recent video release has sealed the deal for me: I don’t know what the deal is with the new message placed on the screen, calling off the operation. Someone can explain it in the comments. Anyway, this creeps me out […]

One Bible Contradiction Cleared Up

I know my frequent critics here won’t believe this, but I do think that it is rational to believe in the Bible and Jesus. I haven’t spelled out the full story of my conversion from atheism here, but it’s accurate to say that I eventually concluded that the hypothesis of Jesus’ divinity was the best […]

Meeting My Brothers and Sisters in Slovakia

Due to an email introduction that frequent commenter Brian Shelley made a while back, over the past few days I have been staying in Slovakia with Jozef Abrman, a missionary working with a Christian church in Trencin, Slovakia. Jozef holds a lecture series in which he brings in Christians from all over the world who […]